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Marines (from the English ajective "marine," meaning "of the sea," from Latin language "mare," meaning sea, via French adjective "marin(e)," "of the sea") are, in principle, seaborne or seagoing land soldiers that are part of a navy. However, in some countries, Marines are no longer part of the navy, notably the United States Marine Corps, which has become an independent armed force falling only administratively under the navy.

Trivia about marines

  • The first division of this U.S. fighting force spearheaded the landing at Inchon
  • If you have your heart set on being a lance corporal, this is the only U.S. armed service that offers that rank
  • Members of this military group are called leathernecks
  • He was in this military service, first ashore in the recapture of Guam on July 21, 1944
  • It's the fighting force represented by the shirt seen here
  • Armed forces branch called "leathernecks" because of the leather bands once worn around their throats
  • This service branch's annual marathon starts & ends at a memorial depicting the Iwo Jima flag raising
  • Heard here, the tune to this military service's "Hymn" is from Offenbach's comic opera "Genevieve de Brabant"
  • John Glenn
  • The intense fighting at Iwo Jima involved the 4th & 5th divisions of this U.S. Armed Forces branch
  • In one of the first major U.S. actions, this military branch's 5th & 6th regiments drove the Germans out of Belleau Wood
  • In 1805 they crossed 600 miles of desert to raise the American flag over a foreign fort
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from San Diego, CA with the U.S.S. Tarawa in the background.) As an amphibious assault ship, the Tarawa's main mission is to land up to 2,000 of these service members on shore & to sustain them there
  • The dog here is training with this branch of the military; in Florida, not Tripoli
  • Comedian Drew Carey
  • Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
  • The precision of spinning rifles in leather-gloved hands exemplifies this military branch's Silent Drill Platoon
  • Sen. Joe McCarthy
  • This group's official hymn was reportedly written after the U.S. took Mexico City in 1847
  • Service branch with a San Diego recruit depot & a Yuma air station

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